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Remember all those Russian propaganda videos threatening to cut off gas to Europe? Mocking Europeans, saying they'd freeze in the dark?
Well, guess who's freezing now?
From Moscow's suburbs to Vladivostok, Russia's massive Soviet era central heating system is collapsing. The war economy didn't just steal workers from civilian factories it consumed the budgets for maintaining and repairing urban infrastructure.
The welders and engineers who could fix burst pipes? They're either at the front or working in defense factories.
And now, in subzero temperatures, hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens are becoming refugees in their own homes.

In this episode, we expose Russia's infrastructure catastrophe:

✅ The Heating System Collapse: How Russia's Soviet-era central heating infrastructure—designed to serve entire cities—is failing across the country due to lack of maintenance and investment.
✅ The Worker Shortage: Why the skilled welders, engineers, and technicians who could fix the system are either at war, working in defense factories, or have fled the country.
✅ The Budget Drain: How the war economy is consuming 30-50% of Russia's federal budget, leaving nothing for civilian infrastructure maintenance.
✅ The Human Cost: Hundreds of thousands of Russians facing subzero temperatures without heat, elderly dying in their apartments, families evacuating to shelters.
✅ The Irony: In the world's largest energy-exporting nation, citizens are freezing to death while Putin spends millions on missiles.
✅ The Broken Contract: How this violates the unwritten social contract at the heart of Putin's rule—"We give up freedom in exchange for stability and basic services."

This isn't a management problem. This is a sign of how completely perverted the regime's priorities have become.
The Kremlin will spend millions on missiles to destroy a Ukrainian apartment building but won't spend $100 to fix a burst pipe in a Russian city.

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